What did Santa fill your stocking with when you were a kid?

We didn't have a stocking at home, but each of us grandchildren had a stocking at my grandfathers house. It was mostly filled with Italian candies and a little bit of money. I did not appreciate the Italian candies as a child. Now that I am an adult I realize he probably went through a lot of trouble to get them. They were more the liking of adult tastes then kid's tastes so I would probably like them more now. They did come in really pretty packages though.

Santa Claus doesnt really exist on this earth. He's just a fiction. even you hang your stocking for 1 year, surely no santa claus will put something on it. Maybe other people like your family member has put something on it but not really the santa claus. dont be fooled..

hi casinocat I grew up in the thirties, and every christmas our stockings had a delicious red apple an oranges, nuts in the shells, and ribbon candy and brachs candy too, but always had to have the orange and the delicious apple in first. what fun we had and all we had was the radio. television had not come yet and we got on the rural lights when I was twelve so we then had electricity wow.there were always candy canes and popcorn strands and cranberry strands decorating the tree along with other ornaments and lots of tinsel.

I remember that there was usually some very useful things in our stockings. We would get toothbrushes and toothpaste. A bottle of bubble bath. A new hair brush, some lotion and some chapstick. Also, though, there would be a few fun things in there as well. I always ended up with some sort of small collectible and a small toy of some sort that I was interested in at the time. I always thought that to a certain extent that my stocking was more fun than the actual gifts because it was always so full of neat things.

I would get candy and little toys. This year I will put in a couple of jars of peanut butter in my husband's stocking along with holiday scratchers. I will also have three stockings for my cats. Each cat gets a can of catfood, a can of tuna, a bag of catnip and a toy. This is my cat Smyles's first Christmas with my husband and I. It will be a lot of fun watching him climb in his stocking.

hey casinocat! that is a very funny question because my parents and especially my brother, would always fill my stocking up with candy! I remember when they put the candy in, one Christmas, I saw them put the candy in and another, my brother put in some black stuff, I forget what Santa hands out for Christmas to naughty children...yea, it was coal or something like that. he would put that in and then I would think Santa Claus hates me and I would start crying until he would pop out of the shadows and tell me that it was just a stupid joke and that Santa doesn't really hate me. I remember those very good days! Hope this answers your question. have a great day and have loads of fun mylotting!!!!! Punjab911

I always recieved chocolate and sometimes hard candy like lifesavers. I'd also get stocking stuffers like small toys that were too small to wrap. I loved getting into my stocking first. I preferred opening that up first and I'm not sure why! It was just exciting to get something personal from Santa.

i used to get really cool stuff like school stuff, jewellry, candy and what not (i still get the candy and the jewellry - my mom still does a stocking for me and hubby and our two daughters). as for our kids, i have a felt advent calendar which i fill with notes such as your are special or see mommy for a treat and i buy them little things that would be in their stocking but they get it starting on dec. 1.

We got fruit, nuts, candy and a dollar coin each year. There would also be small toys like yo-yos or finger locks. When we got older though we began getting cassette tapes and the like. We still do stockings as adults but we (each adult) puts a small gift in each stocking from "Santa", just to help keep the magic alive.

Hi Casinocat, I am happy to share that Santa fills mine and my siblings stockings with apples (we don't grow apple here in our country, it is an imported fruit and during that time apples were so expensive that only during christmas we can have apples), chocolates and toys. Doll for me and toy cars for my brothers. the stockings that we used were of stockings of dad. It's big enough to accommodate santa's gifts compared to our little school socks.

the first instance santa filled my stocking with biscuits and candies when i was a kid, the following christmas i watch my stocking and pretend sleep then i learned that santa is my mom cause she put inside the toy that i want and with some candies in it...

I remember when I was a kid, what I always have are candies, chocolates and the Christmas design candies. I just love those including anything like, wristwatch,sandals or a gift toy from him. What's funny about it is, usually my stockings will be filled with the same thing as to my sisters. Probably my parents do it this way so we will not envy one another.

Hi casinocat I am also a child of the 60s. We always got a big orange and a 50 cent piece.Also always a new toothbrush.a tradition I have continued with my own kids. Alot of times we would get slo poke suckers and those big fat stick candy canes that would take 3 days or more to finish.

when i was a little kid i knew santa claus but i never believe that this is another person. my mama and papa told me who is really what they call SANTA CLAUS. My papa said the gifts that children getting from the socks or stockings really came not from santa claus but usually parents, close relatives...it's really sad because unlike other children they are very excited about it and waiting for the morning to come and find out what sant claus gave them. since we know the truth we directly get presents from our parents, aunts and uncles and close relatives and never experienced hang stockings and wait to be filled with presents from santa claus.

Santa left us things that we liked. We got our favourite chocolate bars and candies, things that we could use (I got a lot of batteries for things like my camera and CD player), and videos, and CDs and stuff like that. More modern gifts of course than a lot of the older generation was used to, but all things we loved and could use.